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I wouldn't trust 'journalists' on what is age-appropriate for kids. The film industry does a good enough job of covering a complex topic. I trust parents, particularly those still married with non-adult kids. https://www.filmratings.com/RatingsGuide#:~:text=Ratings are assigned by a,parents would give a movie.

Two African-American members of the state Assembly have introduced a non-binding resolution calling on school districts in New Jersey to remove “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn“ — widely acclaimed as one of America’s greatest literary works — from their curricula. “I think this is a racist book,” declared one of the sponsors, Verlina Reynolds-Jackson, a Democrat from Mercer County, citing the novel’s frequent use of the N-word. “To use this book in this climate is not doing the African American community any justice at all.” https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2019/03/21/new-jersey-lawmakers-want-schools-to-stop-teaching-huckleberry-finn-924748 ---------- Schools in Burbank will no longer be able to teach a handful of classic novels, including Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, following concerns raised by parents over racism. Middle and high school English teachers in the Burbank Unified School District received the news during a virtual meeting on September 9. Until further notice, teachers in the area will not be able to include on their curriculum Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, Theodore Taylor's The Cay and Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. https://www.newsweek.com/kill-mockingbird-other-books-banned-california-schools-over-racism-concerns-1547241 --------- https://web.archive.org/web/20200513024347/https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2020/05/08/book-banning-is-a-bipartisan-game/

Sure. They should be taught about privacy, touch appropriateness, and permission... Boundaries. It is not age-appropriate to teach how to practice wrapping a banana.

The book banning in schools seems necessary for age appropriateness. Why is a rating system applied to movies and games... but not books? Certainly, a book like the Archarchist Cookbook should have a rating system and not openly be accessible for study by teenage boys. I've read many banned books, not limited to... The Kite Runner, Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, Animal Farm, The Outsiders, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, The Catcher in the Rye, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Bridge to Terabithia, Harry Potter... Some of the ban reasons are silly, but situational bans (for the children) are logical to me... it is 100% appropriate where applied to movies... why not books? Is this (book banning) the legislated censorship you refer to? For fairness of point making, let's recall that books are banned in schools by libs and conservatives.

100% open eyes here. Democrats that ignore the observable behavior is stupid.

A democrat that is awake.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-call-george-santos-resign-lies-fabrications-rcna65550 Same energy

The guy who cared enough to create this topic?

What happened to Menedez the last time he was charged with crimes? Well, the Dems were called 'spineless' and he was acquitted in 2018. https://whyy.org/articles/commentary-spineless-dems-wont-say-it-so-i-will-menendez-should-resign/ https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/31/dismissal-of-menendez-case-380230

Groundhog's day. Exactly. No charges. But why? Is it because there was no crime? Or is it because there is an incentive to ignore it? Ask yourself how long it took for this Menendez news to break, considering the FBI searched his place in June 2022? (15 months). How long did it take for the Biden laptop stories to be confirmed? How quickly are the requested Biden documents being turned over to the oversight committee around the money schemes (hint: still not turned over)? What percentage of DoJ employees donated to Biden vs. Trump? (85%) How long did it take for us to learn about the search for Trump docs at Trump's Mar Largo? (immediately leaked) What did those involved have to say?

Influence peddling, corruption, etc., is a crime. Politicians get away with white-collar crime all the time. Whether they are charged (or not) is a problem; hence the disgust at the number of charges against Trump while other politicians are ignored. This link has a little more information on the Biden family.

The first statement is a problem. The second statement is wrong!

The authoritarians are already in charge.

Maxine Waters... and the shady behaviors regarding OneUnited Nancy Pelosi... one of many insider traders Moochetterman... daddy paying his bills until he's almost 50! Biden... the racist, lying, lousy parenting, corrupt... What IS impressive is that there are some calls to oust a D when the R:D ratio is so tight in the Senate. Even if this is undercut by NJ being a D state. Rs did call for Santos to quit... https://www.axios.com/2023/01/13/house-republicans-call-george-santos-resignation .... Let's compare... which side do the majority of criminals support? It's not even close. It's the comparison that should stop.

Agreed with the call for resignation. I take issue with any claim that D is better concerning different behaviors.

Fetterman, whose net worth is somehow ~$2M while living off his daddy's income into his 40s and bought a ~240K condo from his sister for $1, is the leading critic. The party of hard work, right? The party of Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, and Brandon Biden... The party that earns their money the ethical way, right?

They are in Nebraska. https://trib.al/IOuvpn3

Nobody who runs on the open statement that abortion is murder will win the presidency. Right-sided women joined the left with their pro-choice votes in right-leaning states like Kansas. Trump won the right by kicking the abortion choice back to the state powers, and he is now mitigating the left's attack with his updated pro-choice type statements with regards to 'weeks' and compromise.

Is it safe to say that social media has greatly spread social contagion?

Yes in that specific situation, anyone involved would be accountable. Please decrypt the second comment about inmate comments. I'm not aware of that discussion. Without a way to prove a taboo topic... I wager that millions believe that abortion is sometimes situationally murder. This puts them in an uncomfortable position because everyone knows someone who has had an abortion... To acknowledge that family/friends/coworkers have... will rip the fabric of relationships. Turning a blind eye is the safest approach for security purposes.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330 Lisa Littman, then an adjunct assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, became interested in the possible role of social contagion in gender dysphoria among adolescents and young adults after noticing a few teenagers in the same friend group that began identifying as transgender. Based on parental feedback in 256 cases, parents described that the onset of gender dysphoria seemed to occur in the context of belonging to a peer group where one, multiple, or even all of the friends have become gender dysphoric and transgender-identified during the same timeframe. Parents also report that their children exhibited an increase in social media/internet use prior to the disclosure of a transgender identity. "Rapid-onset gender dysphoria" (or ROGD) is a term used to describe "a hypothesized new clinical subgroup of transgender youth, which would be characterized by coming out as transgender out of the blue in adolescence or early adulthood." In 2022, Littman stood by the core claims she made in her study, adding that ROGD "does not apply to all cases of gender dysphoria" and "doesn't imply that nobody benefits from transition".

There is nuance with homicide. Justifiable homicide may be when a person kills in self-defense or similar circumstances. It is not a legal charge but a classification used by police in cases where no crime was committed. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/homicide If the homicide is classified as 'murder,' then yes. Both the client and the hitman are charged. The nuance is in when homicide is classified as murder, which is a complex topic. Example: A 28-year-old mother who aborts her 5-month-old unborn because she wants to focus on her career? Yes, I think she hired a hitman to murder her unborn. This is worse than a DUI and there should be accountability; e.g. doctor loses their license. There is a legal abortion compromise that isn't full-term and zero-term abortion; there is nuance and diplomacy needed.

Not everyone qualifies for LASIK, but PRK could be an option for you. Read the post again; both my comments about the obvious visual evidence of social influence, and the articles themself. The inferred evidence is strong.

Homicide is the killing of one human being by another. When a physician terminates the unborn, this is homicide. When the unborn is putting the mother's life at risk, and the physician performs a medical procedure to save the woman's life, and the unfortunate outcome is that the unborn is killed... that's still homicide. Not all homicide deserves 'charges.'

@Ban Basketball Here was the immediate post to your question for evidence. (page 1)